Astrological comments on America, on Washington DC, and on the politicians who infest them...with a gentle sprinkling of world events

Jan 9, 2016

Edward Snowden on America's Secret Government (plus, Mars and Bacon)

Somehow I had missed this informative excerpt from an interview of November 2014 conducted by former 2016 candidate Lawrence Lessig with shunned NSA official and exile Edward Snowden. Being a presidential election year you would think that such topics would be prominent in our current public discourse! Yet listen for surveillance topics within the current presidential debate cycle and you'll hear little more than crickets. Ask Trump, Bush, Cruz, Rubio, Clinton, or even Sanders to comment on or describe America's secret government or to uphold its antidote government by consent of the governed and evasions and diversions begin though you might get a fevered rise out of Sanders or Trump (to give us the impression that our concerns are 'being heard') while studied non-responses from the rest must suffice. They'll have to leave it there, as their bosses often advise them to say...

This interview with Ed Snowden seemed totally appropriate since the Saturn-Neptune square is upon us all for as you know, mundane Saturn = government, law, business while mundane (as if!) Neptune = secret, invisible, illegitimate, fraudulent. My opinions is that we're brainless fools if we allow the 'ruling class' to tell us we can't even discuss aloud such topics as surveillance, illegalities, and anti-constitutional provisions since our lives and the futures of our children are closely and adversely affected. Too many of our officials are in the raptor's grip and trying desperately to hold on to their positions of power and their generous incomes but constantly act in breach of the public trust and contract. So few of them actually represent the interests of the American public that it would be hilariously amusing were it not so riotously tragic.

Now I wonder if the '30Cap' Sabian Symbol we spoke of earlier will be part of the secrets to be revealed under the auspices of Mars' retrograde period during April into October 2016 which takes us right up to the position of transiting Mars on Election Day 2016 and "A Secret Business Conference" which may possibly be made inconveniently public? For a deeper look, I do feel certain that the symbol of the Illumination Point for '30Cap'--right across the axis at '30Cancer' may be informative for it is, "A Daughter of the American Revolution," a reference to our past political revolution that inspires me to begin quoting (some of which you may have read here in prior posts or elsewhere) as I think of how 2016 candidate Senator Bernie Sanders has been calling for one:

The American Revolution "was not a revolt against an existing indigenous system of government but rather an anti-colonial movement against the English"...that "involved a change in political authority rather than a transformation in the power structure of society. Therefore it does not conform to the model of other revolutions.

The full revolutionary dynamic of the American Revolution can be stated as follows:

The American Revolution brought about a constitutional transformation that ended Britain's colonial rule and created republicanism, the political expression of Templar Masonry. The new Atlantis of America was a Templar-created Masonic State.

The revolutionary dynamic of the ideas behind the American Revolution can be stated as follows:

Heretical occult inspiration: *New Atlantis

Intellectual expression: Illuminism

Political expression: Republicanism

Physical expression: Conquest/westward expansion."

And so the astrological puzzle remains: what structural and political reforms will America's first-ever Pluto Return/s all through 2022 perpetrate? And since the Return of powerful, wealthy Pluto to its 1776 position will soon begin triggering our national Mercury-Pluto opposition (Cancer/Capricorn) of propaganda, secrets, spies, and surveillance, will the spying industry grow by then into the beast it now strives to be? Or has it already?

No comments:

Welcome to Stars Over Washington!

Please make yourself at home here, dear reader. Scroll down to Join, Follow, or Subscribe as you wish, and a Thank You to those who do.

Original content and horoscope analyses written primarily by yours truly, a 'recovering' DC resident. You'll find additional content (videos, audios, article links, quotes, excerpts, etc) by various authors and others who express their own views which are not necessarily shared by SO'W.

And note that all content herein cannot be vetted by a lone blogger and is posted in a spirit of discussion and the furthering of alternate opinions along with a populist, common-good 'peek under the hood of Politics' focus made possible by the ancient art and lens of Astrology!

Also note that information given here is not intended to be applied to personal horoscopes but deals with broader societal issues and the positive and negative tendencies of politicians and other public figures. Please consult your own astrologer for personal details concerning your natal chart.

ps: please pardon that some article links and videos in older posts are no longer live--SO'W turned 13 years old on October 16, 2018! Also, some content providers may have removed their videos in a snit of...well, for whatever reasons, and some have simply expired. jc

Banner image: Washington Monument, Washington DC

Ad Note: Jude Cowell is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

PR Watch: Reporting on spin and disinformation since 1993.

Favored Visitors!

Google+ Badge

the international forecaster

Cryptogon

From Bill Moyers:

"An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda, is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. That kind of orthodoxy can kill a democracy - or worse."

Sun Can/Moon Cap = We The People?

"Corporations Are People"

Corporations write US bills

"In 1928 the Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking." - Will Rogers

"We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting the Democrats with dogs." - Phil Gramm (R-TX)

Who Owns the US Government?

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson." Franklin D. Roosevelt to Colonel Edward House 11.21.33

Light for Our Troubling Times

"The nations are in unrest. Times of perplexity are upon us. Men's hearts are failing them for fear of the things that are coming upon the earth. But those who believe in God will hear His voice amid the storm, saying, 'It is I; be not afraid.' "

One World Government

Galactic Center Alignment

more great Astrology blogs/sites...

Sometimes When Americans Protest...

"Popular Sovereignty"

"Government is not to be indifferent to the injustices that afflict society." --Hubert Humphrey

"Dear Hubert! Government is the afflicter." --Jude Cowell

A Huge Hint from Woodrow Wilson:

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."